Comment by jacobgkau
8 hours ago
The "sustainable" comment wasn't about the hosts file ballooning to the point of causing performance problems. It was more about the engineering effort required for every program ever (or at least every commercial program that might want this sort of analytic) to have to parse and edit a text file on both installation and removal, without messing that important text file up.
Do you really not see scripted editing of shared system-wide text files as a step back compared to the general containerization that app development has moved towards? This sort of approach would be explicitly incompatible with sandboxes. Adobe can only get away with it because they're already very entrenched with their own app store on their users' machines.
> Do you really not see scripted editing of shared system-wide text files as a step back compared to the general containerization that app development has moved towards?
Sir, this is Windows. This is not Android, this is not iOS, this is not macOS. Wait until you learn about the registry.
> this is not macOS.
From the first sentence of the featured article:
> If you’re using Windows or macOS
Also, Microsoft has attempted to reign in and standardize app developers on numerous occasions over the past couple of decades, and their failure to do so doesn't impact my statement regarding the direction of app development in general (or the weaknesses of people doing whatever they want on Windows).